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Accommodation by Historic Figure - F

From Sir Thomas Fairfax to Sigmund Freud

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Listings are by surname except in the case of kings, queens and other monarchs. Hotels and other accommodation marked with an asterisk (*) denotes a particularly strong connection with the specific individual. Accommodation is within the United Kingdom unless stated otherwise.

Photograph of Franz FerdinandArchduke Franz Ferdinand
Fairfax, Sir Thomas. 1612 – 1671. Commander in chief of the Parliamentarian Army during the English Civil War. Crewe Hall

Fawkes, Guy. 1570? – 1606. The most well-known of the group of Catholic plotters who unsuccessfully attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament and assassinate King James in 1605. Spread Eagle of Midhurst | Hadley Bowling Green Inn | *The Guy Fawkes Inn

Fermi, Enrico. 1901 – 1954. Italian Nobel prize-winning scientist who is most well-known for his work in particle physics and on the atomic bomb. Helvetia and Bristol (Italy)

Fielding, Henry. 1707 – 1754. Celebrated English author whose most famous work is The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Oakley Hall | The White Lion

Fitzgerald, Edward. 1809 – 1883. Writer and poet whose other work is overshadowed by his English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. *The Falcon | The Ambleside Salutation

Photograph of F Scott FitzgeraldF Scott Fitzgerald (by Van Vechten)
Fitzgerald, F Scott. 1896 – 1940. American writer most famed for his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. Ritz Paris (France) | Grove Park Inn (USA) | The Jefferson Hotel (USA)

Ford, Henry. 1863 - 1947. US Industrialist who developed a mass-production manufacturing process for cars. Grove Park Inn (USA) | Green Mountain Inn (USA) | Mission Inn (USA)

Fox, Charles James. 1749 – 1806. English Whig politician and staunch opponent of William Pitt the Younger. The Fox Club

Francis I, King of France. 1494 – 1547. Famous French monarch and fierce rival of both Henry VIII of England and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Chateau de Crazannes (France) | Chateau de Nieuil (France) | Palazzo Lovera (Italy)

Frank, Anne. 1929 – 1945. World famous diarist whose accounts of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands were published two years after her death at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Hotel Groot Warnsborn (Netherlands)

Franklin, Benjamin. 1706 - 1790. American polymath and “Founding Father” who contributed to both science and politics in equal measure. Prestonfield | *Hotel d’Angleterre Paris (France)

Photograph of Henry FordHenry Ford (Library of Congress)
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke. 1863 – 1914. Royal Prince whose assassination in Sarajevo on the 28th of June 1914 led to World War I. Parkhotel Laurin (Italy)

Franz Joseph I, Emperor. 1830 – 1916. Multi-titled European monarch, including King of Croatia and Grand Duke of Cracow. Imperial Vienna (Austria) | Hotel Bristol (Austria) | Hotel Post of Bruneck (Italy)

Freud, Sigmund. 1856 – 1939. Austrian pioneer of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Hotel Bristol (Austria)


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